A gallery of superb portraits in pencil, pastels, and charcoal. Virtuoso display of technical skill and intuitive eye of noted American portrait painter.
These are examples of an absorbing range of images and personalities, all distinguished in one way or another for their artistry, and all linked by friendship and a shared aesthetic to the central figure of Sargent himself.
At seventeen, Sargent was describedas "willful, curious, determined and strong" (after his mother) yet shy, generous, ... Hebecame both a valuable friend and Sargent's primary connection with the American artists abroad.
This revised edition of the book is with completely different in quality reproductions of drawings and sketches of John Singer Sargent.John Singer Sargent was an American leading portrait painter of Edwardian era luxury.
The official biography of John Singer Sargent This book is the official biography of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), published two years after his death in 1927, by his friend the Hon. Evan Charteris.
John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Water Colours
Masterpieces of drawing from the great schools and traditions of Italy and northern Europe, spanning four centuries from Filippino Lippi, Andrea del Sarto, and Titian to Rembrandt, Van Dyck, and Ingres. 47 plates.
The works of American portrait & mural painter and sketcher John Singer Sargent (12 January 1856 - 14 April 1925). Volume 2 (of 2).
Violet Ormond to Francis [Henry] Taylor, London, November 21, I949, Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives, refers to a letter “of about a fortnight ago” to which she had not received a reply. Taylor, director of the Metropolitan from I940 ...
Ships and the sea through the eyes of one of the most remarkable painters of the early 20th century As a young man the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)...
"John Singer Sargent, the celebrated portrait painter of the fashionable and famous of the fin de siecle and the Gilded Age, maintained the yearly routine, begun during his student days,...